There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.